Regarding the starred message by @BradLarson, is there a meta post about this? I agree those are junk edits and he deserved the suspension, and sure, we could go all OCD and roll them all back (those whose owners haven’t already fixed them), but I’d like to first see some pre-approval of that action by the community or its moderators or managers — just to be on the safe side.

@tchrist plus it was only a 3 day suspension! @nicael got 30 , also they should go through and suspend users that approved these edits... not saying if you approved 1 or 2 of them to be suspended, but if you approved a lot and didn't really reject any they need to be suspended too... well maybe not suspended suspended but banned from reviewing for a while

@hichris123 Well yes, but so was Mr Superfreako. Then again, it’s harder to get a pin here than elsewhere, and I imagine somebody would have fixed it by now if it had been inappropriate. But I couldn’t understand why I didn’t notice that anything had been done yet.

@tchrist Brad is an SO moderator. He was doing his own thing (which he'd do regardless of anybody's help) and asked for help. It's expected that one uses discretion instead of blindly rolling things back. Specifically, the edits that broke formatting.

> I even got a brand new surge protector to prevent anything bad from the wall reaching my PC, and I also moved my build to the other side of the room so I'm on a different power rail. But still, card 3 shit the bed.

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Steps:
Start with a regular extant human society. It can be the United States, North Korea, Sudan, Singapor...

@Roombatron5000 This is a stupid question because a "genius" always has to be relative to some other population, and it's incredibly unlikely that somehow you'd be able to develop an isolated population of smarter people for lots of different reasons.

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